2006-07-08 05:47:51 · 20 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, it is precisely because God loves you that he wants to condemn you to an eternity of pop-and-sizzle. It's a complex relationship. You know, 'we only hurt the ones we love'... 'we only condemn to an eternity of suffering the ones we love'...
You wouldn't understand because you don't have the Holy Spirit within you...
Just remember that God loves you. God loves even those people he's forced to fry down there in hell. God loves everyone. Except Esau. God hates that slimy b*stard...
2006-07-08 05:52:48 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I know it is really nice and pleasant to believe that God loves everyone and everything, but that is not Biblical.
Pro 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Pro 6:18 A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Pro 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Zec 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for al these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
Rev 2:6 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
Mal 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
God is our Heavenly Father, not grandfather. He has a the full range of emotions, both love and hate.
2006-07-08 13:26:59 · answer #2 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand your confusion. You are trying to reconcile the wrathful God of the Old Testament with Jesus. In the OT, God is trying to accomplish establishing an environment in which Jesus can enter the world and accomplish His mission. To do this He had to create a peculiar people capable of both sustaining, recognising, and ultimately condemming Him. To bring this about took a 'God-level' example of 'tough love'. He had to establish and enforce the rules, and then identify and instruct those who would follow Him, and keep them in play even when they did screw up. You don't do that by being a 'touchy-feely, nice-guy God'. This is the kind of an issue you can only understand by putting whole Bible in context. It will help if you will use John 10:10 as a 'balance beam' for all your Biblical understanding: "The enemy comes only to kill, steal, and destroy; but I am come that you may have life, and that more abundantly."
Read the whole bible with that in mind: 'God=good; Devil=bad / good=God; bad=Devil.'
Also, God is a lot like Harry Truman (the US president who dropped the atom bombs on Japan). He's got a little sign on His desk that reads, 'The buck stops here.' God doesn't hide behind the Devil pointing at him and saying, 'It's his fault! Blame him!" God is the Author and Creator of the universe. He takes the hit for whatever goes on. Ultimately He came to Earth, took on our flesh and bone, lived a life without sin, suffered and died a cruel, unjust death on a Roman cross to earn the right to redeem us from our justified eternal death. It's an amazingly tidy, cohesive, logical, and intelligent storyline for a bunch of unrelated, unsophisticated men to scrape together over several melinnia.
2006-07-08 14:17:45 · answer #3 · answered by rumplesnitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True God Is love, nor does he hate some of his creation- He hates what some of his creation does, such as ruining the earth, doing bad things to others of his creation, having a heart that does not love.
2006-07-08 12:59:05 · answer #4 · answered by Nancy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't "god" who hates - it is these religious NUTS who HATE and they claim it is AAAAALL in the name of the Lord. People HATE and they teach hate and fear to their kids and they spread it all around like dogpoop at a birthday party. Too bad these nuts don't remember that they are NOT supposed to judge others or play god. Yet they do it EVERY chance they get by telling others what to do and who to love and how to live!! I stay away from these hypocrites. God created ALL the people (yes even gays, so get over yourselves!) It is the people on earth who are decided what god made and who is a sinner and who is doing wrong, but none of them know ANYTHING.
2006-07-08 12:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God does not hate His (or Her) creations.
God does not approve of some of His creation's behavior.
There is a difference between love and approval.
With love in Christ.
2006-07-20 01:28:04 · answer #6 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is a way to explain the unexplicable.
Science is another one.
The human being is by nature an inquiring being that not always finds satisfactory answers for everything it asks about. So, using another powerful skill that the human beings have (the imagination) we create the story that we buy.
Some of us believe in some Gods... Some of us believe in science... Some of us believe in UFOs...
Different answers for the same questions:
What are we?
Where do we come from?
Where are we going to?
Hope it helps.
2006-07-17 11:15:49 · answer #7 · answered by SebastianC 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh God does hate and I will show you in your own bible!
ROMANS 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
There you go God hates! Case closed he is an a**hole
2006-07-08 12:57:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is all knowing, all powerful and is incapable of hate. he loves unconditionally. Those people out there who claim God hates for what ever reason are wrong and are haters themselves.
2006-07-08 12:51:57 · answer #9 · answered by JENNLUPE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves all his creations. a* 16 ¶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have heverlasting ilife.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
b*36 And it came to pass that Moses spake unto the Lord, saying: Be merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me concerning this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, and also the heavens, and then thy servant will be content.
37 And the Lord God spake unto Moses, saying: The heavens, they are many, and they cannot be numbered unto man; but they are numbered unto me, for they are mine.
38 And as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof even so shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my words.
39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
40 And now, Moses, my son, I will speak unto thee concerning this earth upon which thou standest; and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak.
41 And in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold, I will raise up another like unto thee; and they shall be had again among the children of men—among as many as shall believe.
2006-07-08 13:16:10 · answer #10 · answered by cincoabrigo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋